Capital City Birthplaces for Richest Billionaires

Billion-dollar babies (Pixabay)Sixteen of the world’s 100 richest billionaires were born in a national capital city. That fact gives some credence to the notion that capital cities are well-suited to supporting lifestyles of the rich and famous.

The Bloomberg Billionaires Index is a regularly updated ranking of the world’s richest people in terms of net worth. This article extracts the top 100 billionaires as of January 10, 2018.

Among the top 10 wealthiest billionaires, there are two billionaires with a capital city as their birthplace.

Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim heads Latin America’s biggest mobile phone operator complemented by bank and mining holdings, stakes in the New York Times and Caixabank and interests in Mexico’s construction industry. Moscow-born billionaire Sergey Brin is president of the holding company Alphabet which owns Google, the world’s largest search engine.

Richest Billionaires Born in a Capital City

The listing below showcases the 16 billionaires born in a national capital city who also appear among the 100 wealthiest people from the Bloomberg Billionaires Index.

Rank

Billionaire

Net Worth

Birthdate

Birthplace

6

Carlos Slim

$64 billion

January 28, 1940

Mexico City, Mexico

10

Sergey Brin

$53.6 billion

August 21, 1973

Moscow, Russia

38

Serge Dassault

$22.9 billion

April 4, 1925

Paris, France

40

Tadashi Yanai

$21.7 billion

September 24, 1901

Tokyo, Japan

43

Len Blavatnik

$21.1 billion

June 14, 1957

London, England

45

Elon R Musk

$20.8 billion

June 28, 1971

Pretoria, South Africa

48

Thomas Peterffy

$20.1 billion

October 15, 1901

Budapest, Hungary

51

Vladimir Potanin

$19.9 billion

January 3, 1961

Moscow, Russia

57

Stefan Persson

$18.6 billion

October 4, 1947

Stockholm, Sweden

64

Alwaleed Al Saud

$17.6 billion

March 7, 1955

Riyadh, Saudi Arabia

66

Iris Fontbona

$17.3 billion

1942/1943

Santiago, Chile

70

Charoen Sirivadhanabhakdi

$17 billion

May 2, 1944

Bangkok, Thailand

77

Thomas Peterffy

$16.3 billion

September 22, 1965

Rome, Italy

80

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken

$16.1 billion

June 30, 1954

Amsterdam, Netherlands

96

Vagit Alekperov

$13.8 billion

March 5, 1902

Baku, Azerbaijan

97

Hasso Plattner

$13.8 billion

January 21, 1944

Berlin, Germany

The leftmost column displays each billionaire’s ranking on the Bloomberg Index followed by the billionaire’s name, net worth in US dollars, date of birth as well as the capital city including country where the billionaire was born.

Significant Net Worth Changes

The fastest-growth in wealth among the richest billionaires born in a capital city belongs to Hungarian Thomas Peterffy, chairperson of the electronic broker garnering the highest average daily trade revenues Interactive Brokers. Peterffy and 7 other capital city born richest billionaires posted increases in their net worth as shown below.

Thomas Peterffy (Budapest, Hungary): Up US$512 million

Tadashi Yanai (Tokyo, Japan): Up $324 million

Serge Dassault (Paris, France): Up $187 million

Charlene de Carvalho-Heineken (Amsterdam, Netherlands): Up $184 million

Vladimir Potanin (Moscow, Russia): Up $126 million

Vagit Alekperov (Baku, Azerbaijan): Up $78.2 million

Sergey Brin (Moscow, Russia): Up $59.4 million

Len Blavatnik (London, England): Up $57.1 million

The increases in net worth show above as year to date as of January 10, 2018.

Stockholm native Stefan Persson endured the greatest decline in net worth among the richest billionaires born in a capital city. The Swedish billionaire serves as chairperson for the world’s number two retailer of private-label apparel, Hennes & Mauritz. The billionaires born in a capital city who posted declines in net worth including Persson are presented below.